Louisiana Sea Grant Showcases Education & Engagement Achievements at NMEA 2025 Louisiana Sea Grant’s Education and Engagement team made a big splash at the National Marine Educators Association (NMEA) Annual Conference, held June 29–July 3, 2025, in Lafayette. Dani DiIullo, Education and Engagement director, represented Louisiana Sea Grant on the “Current Articles Authors Panel”, co-authoring […]

Heavy metals are widespread contaminants in aquatic systems. However, their prevalence and the threat they pose to local ecosystems are not easy to monitor. In a Louisiana Sea Grant-funded project, Stephanie Archer, assistant professor at Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON); Mary Miller, professor of biology at Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC); and Phoebe Zito, assistant […]

There’s a mystery in the marshes of Louisiana worthy of any detective. Where are the diamondback terrapin turtles and how many are there? Louisiana Sea Grant (LSG) is spearheading an effort to solve that puzzle with the public’s help. Terrapins are native to the brackish coastal waters of the Gulf, East Coast and Bermuda. They’re […]

The second cohort of Graduate Interjurisdictional Research Fellowship (GIRAF) projects have been awarded. GIRAF is a joint effort of Louisiana Sea Grant and Louisiana Space Grant, along with the North Carolina Sea and Space Grant Programs. The transregional aspect of GIRAF is to promote a greater understanding of the issues researched and create professional development […]

With funding from the National Academies of Sciences’ Gulf Research Program (GRP) Inspire initiative, Louisiana Sea Grant’s LSU EnvironMentors program sent eight high school student researchers from Scotlandville Magnet High School and McKinley Senior High School and two program alumni, who are now undergraduates at Louisiana State University (LSU), to the National Marine Educators Association […]

From the Bird’s Foot Delta of southeast Louisiana to the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Minnesota, the water connects us all. Traveling almost 3,000 miles in a week, 11 teachers from south Louisiana attended The Water Connects Us All Minnesota Summer Institute, a five-day professional learning experience funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]

Jessica RZ Simms, a researcher-writer, has been named Laborde Endowed Chair for Sea Grant Research and Technology Transfer at Louisiana Sea Grant (LSG). Her appointment begins July 1 and will last for one year. Simms earned her Ph.D. in geography from Louisiana State University in 2017. For several years after, she was the outreach and […]